Just wondering of there are any multi-player virtual games out there that pit modern day “neighbors” against each other. Battle Suburbia, anyone?
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I recently had new neighbours move in. Last Monday I felt like I was living in a no-tell motel. Headboard banging against the wall, grunts of exertion, vociferations of joy, and a final exclamation of “that was fun, wasn’t it?!”.
If it was all the time it might bother me, but it was just the once (so far) so it was funny.
Good for them. Hope they hydrated.
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She said issues with the neighbor next door led her to believe more privacy was needed/might help. Part of me sympathizes with her. If you wind up living next to a Gladys Kravitz type, your first line of defense is making sure they can’t easily see what you are doing on your property.
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LOL My mother in law was “trapped” in the US when the pandemic broke out and we’ve been putting her up in varIous airBNB’s nearby.
She swore that one was basically rented out as a hookup shack for politicians and prostitutes. Kept hearing the usually noises and the next morning the couple would be gone. Guy in nice suit, woman in outfit you’d not expect to pair with a conservative suit. Wash rinse repeat for almost 8 weeks.
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Row of arborvitae, close enough so it’ll contact. They’ll outgrow it in a year and rot it to dust in three.
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You can paint away on San Jose…
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I prefer the post out side. Easier to stand on to spy on your neighbor!
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San Francisco?! Human feces everywhere thanks to Newsom!
Wait, that actually looks quite nice.
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Fences on the front sections of residential lots have been required to be less than 4 ft. in many metro jurisdictions for a long time, and this wasn’t just a little off but 50% too high. It’s not just some arbitrary rule for aesthetics, either. It allows motorists and pedestrians to see each other at corners and around bends. I would have complained too if my neighbor blatantly ignored zoning/building codes in such a way. This is definitely not malicious compliance, which requires following the rule to have worse consequences than not doing so. It’s just someone who was clearly in the wrong to begin with being a petty asshole for no good reason.
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Worse, she gave her neighbor (and the world) the “rough” side with the posts out, a classic dick move in fence construction.
This… when I bought my house the fence along one property line had posts rotting that fell over. I informed by neighbor assuming it was his fence b/c the posts were on his side. He responded “nope” and told me you build the fence with the nice side facing you… I totally don’t get that and never seen it that way anywhere but apparently it is a thing. In any case it’s stupid b/c hey I couldn’t see/take care of the fence posts before they rotted and would have to rely on my neighbor to do that?
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The neighborhood my parents live at has an odd arrangement with backyard fencing, they alternate segments of the nice side and post side. The post side segments are yours to maintain and the nice segments are your neighbors. Looks odd and my parents had to deal with a neighbor being too cheap to fix their parts of the fence, and they were too nice to take it up with the HOA.
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Hmm. Here in my city, the owner of the fence takes the side with the boards and the pretty side goes to the adjacent property. IDK if this is just a local custom or if there’s a regulation behind it.
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I’m glad I don’t live in an HOA. My neighbor and I split the cost of putting in a chain link fence and he put bamboo on his side to act as a screen. The house is his vacation home so he’s only around for a few weeks a year perfect neighbor IMO.
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Generally, more privacy is better than less privacy between neighbors. No one would go to the expense of putting up a fence if there had not been incursions into her property or other violations of neighborliness.
The fence does not go all the way to the street, it leaves plenty of pedestrian access - and at its original height it would not have blocked a motorist’s view of the street or caused any other actual problem. She painted it a calm blue-gray at first, so she was trying to take her neighbors tastes into account while she increased her own privacy. Now it’s shorter and brightly colored in response to her neighbors’ nastiness. Sort of like planting pretty flowers over a septic tank. Nice. The kids will like it, no matter what the fussy grownups think.
It certainly has no material impact on the prissy guy two doors down, who wants to impose his own taste on all his neighbors. It sounds like “respect” to him just means agreeing with him - he certainly is showing no respect for her. He’ll get used to it. And yes, there’s plenty of room to plant a hedge on the bright side of the fence if the offended neighbor wants to obscure it.
Neighbors need to mind their own business, not their neighbor’s business. “Good walls make good neighbors” is an old American value.
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I think it would, because she didn’t stay within the lines.
Wow! Much park, very fence, so spite.
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Moved to my new digs ~1.5 years ago. Wooden (rough-side-in) fence all around the backyard. I wasn’t aware this was an on-going issue with my new passive aggressive neighbors, but they put up a nice, clean, VOC off-gassing PVC white-picket fence less than a foot away from mine across our ~40 ft shared border.
I really don’t care, but thought it was funny that they didn’t contact me to possibly share the price which I would have happily done since we just had a bear break through a different part of the fence by ripping the wood down. Or ask if I’d mind, or introduce themselves, or anything. Man, getting used to the 'burbs is crazy. I tried to introduce myself once and they looked at me like I was a madman.
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Where my mom lives, there is a house on the downside of the hill, that refuses to aim their spotlight into their actual yard, so we built a 7ft tall fence with sections added in places up to 9 ft to block her lights, and drown our the noise of her ever barking dogs.
I, personally, want privacy if I can ever afford a house- I intend to ideally build in a small forest, but if I get stuck in suburbia, Rose’s of Sharon, vines, anything green to block out the rest of the world.
I completely understand the desire for tall fences, especially if you don’t have a beautiful view to begin with.
Why not just build a normal fence, and cap one side with a 3" gap from the ground, so you can get a weed wacker under, but still have the look of a nice fence on both sides?
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